Door (closed)

Henrik Boman & Monika Nilsson

In the N wall there is a door closed up in two phases (one presumably narrowing the door, the last, closing it completely). As seen on the N facade, this part of the wall is almost exclusively built in cruma of varying sizes. Some terracotta fragments are used. Light coloured mortar with large white lime intrusions. Parts of the surface stones has fallen out. Modern mortar also found below this area (c).

The upper part of the wall seems reconstructed. A clear line (d) seem which ought to correspond to the preserved wall and the reconstructed wall, as we also seen in the N facade.

Closed door, 1st closing (narrowing)
Plaster is found on the inside of the block in area IV, which indicates that this is a closed door. The plaster (a) extends over several blocks, and together with the appearance of the structure of the wall, and the location of the block may lead us to the conclusion that this block is not a spoil.

This section has a structure of smaller stones, cruma and brick/tile with fairly large amounts of mortar towards the closed door original doorframe (IV), and larger stone to the assumed new door frame, facing the wall in the closed door (II) in the later stage.

In room f there seems not to be any plaster in the door opening towards section II. This is not conclusive, though it might reduce the phases of the closing of the door to one single phase, not two as assumed in this description.

The upper part of the original door is not preserved and we cannot estimate the original height of the door, it most likely exceeded 2.2 m, the today preserved height of the door.